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The Dark Mail Alliance is an organization dedicated to creating an email protocol and architecture with end-to-end encryption. In October 2013,
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Lavabit Lavabit is an open-source encrypted webmail service, founded in 2004. The service suspended its operations on August 8, 2013 after the U.S. Federal Government ordered it to turn over its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) private keys, in order to al ...
announced a project to create a more secure alternative to email and began a fundraising effort. The Dark Mail Alliance team consists of Phil Zimmermann, Jon Callas, Mike Janke, and
Ladar Levison Lavabit is an open-source encrypted webmail service, founded in 2004. The service suspended its operations on August 8, 2013 after the U.S. Federal Government ordered it to turn over its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) private keys, in order to allo ...
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DIME

Dark Internet Mail Environment (DIME) aims to be a secure communication platform for asynchronous messaging across the Internet. It was presented by Ladar Levison and Stephen Watt at
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on August 8, 2014.


Specifications

There have been multiple revisions for DIME specifications. The latest revision is presented as a preliminary draft. * First public revision, December 2014 * Preliminary draft, March 2015


Protocols

* Dark Mail Transfer Protocol (DMTP) * Dark Mail Access Protocol (DMAP)


Data formats

* Signet Data Format * Message Data Format ( D/ MIME)


Implementations


Server-side

Magma is the reference MIME server implementation. It supports server side encryption, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol (POP), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).


Client-side

Volcano, a Thunderbird fork with DIME support.


See also

* Email encryption * Email privacy * Kolab Now * Pretty Good Privacy * pretty Easy privacy


References

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External links


Dark Mail Alliance web site
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